Secretary Blinken, President Biden — STOP IT! Stop this reckless escalation. I say this not as a political partisan, but simply as a citizen of the world,
The Russians are wearing down the Ukrainians' ability to put well trained, well equipped forces into battle, and getting air-launched cruise missiles won't change that,
There is little reason to believe that the provision of these air-launched cruise missiles will significantly increase Ukraine's chances of winning the war,
We'll obviously pick up again in UNGA in just a few days time with a wider group of individuals,
This is not rhetoric that we haven't heard from him before,
Nuclear testing would be new. I would not exclude that, and it would be in line with Russia shattering a number of international security arrangements that it has signed up to over the decades during the last couple of years,
This would be a dramatic escalation of the conflict,
The moment of truth has come for the West, whether it desires a full-scale war with Russia."
You shouldn’t forget about this and think about the consequences,
Allowing Ukraine to use Western weaponry, assisted with Western satellite images (and) Western military advisers is something that very closely encroaches on vital Russian interests,
I find that relationship between what the Pentagon is advising the president based on intelligence versus the international pressure to be the really interesting part of the story,
There is no change to our view on the provision of long range strike capabilities for Ukraine to use inside of Russia,
I would not expect any major announcement in that regard,
(Putin) is trying to deeply destabilize the international rules-based order that protects us all, not just in every democracy around the world, but in all countries around the world,
That is a line that I — as chancellor — do not want to cross,
What the U.K. and U.S. agree with each other is not for me to judge. It’s up to those who supplied these weapons to decide. International law allows that,
And Putin’s threats are Putin’s threats, that’s all that needs to be said. He threatens whenever he likes and whenever he sees fit,
Putin's war in Ukraine has been a massive failure – hundreds of thousands of casualties, a brain drain, a million Russians have fled, Sweden and Finland are now NATO members, the list goes on,
He makes these threats because he knows they work,
We shouldn’t think of any individual weapon system as a wonder weapon that will change the war radically,